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Ep. 24 – Myth of Myself
Alan Watts Being in the Way
The Myth of the Mechanical Universe
In popular theology, the Lord God is the master mind who knows everything. Unfortunately, this particular image or myth became too much for Western man because it was oppressive. And so instead we got another myth, the myth of the purely mechanical universe. This was invented at the end of the 18th century and became increasingly fashionable throughout the course of the 19th century and well into the 20th century. It is today's common sense.
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